Sound and Town Report, 3-8-2013

Sound and Town Report, 3-8-2013

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Vol. 15/Number 9
March 8, 2013
Wild goose case: Contract to slaughter geese causes controversy
By CHRIS GRAMUGLIA
STAFF REPORTER
chrisg@hometwn.com
The Board of Trustees announced its plan to euthanize a large part of the village’s goose population in order to
combat the ongoing problem of droppings left in public parks. These geese were photographed in Mamaroneck last
summer. File photo
Community members support local activist
By CHRIS GRAMUGLIA
STAFF REPORTER
chrisg@hometwn.com
Local activist and author Luis
Quiros appeared in village court
on Feb. 28, facing disorderly conduct charges which he said were
the result of racial profiling.
Quiros was arrested on Feb.
14 outside of his home at 144
Rockland Ave. by Officer Patrick
Nadolske, who allegedly told
Quiros he appeared suspicious
while sitting in his car listening
to music. An altercation between
Nadolske and Quiros followed in
which Quiros said he was pushed
against a car belonging to Guisela
Marroquin—another local activist and friend of Quiros’—and
then forced into Nadolske’s police
cruiser, causing his nose and lip to
bleed. According to Quiros, one of
Following a Feb. 14 arrest for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, Luis
Quiros, center, appeared in village court Feb. 28. Community members,
activists and friends outside the courthouse said a lack of police
accountability and racial proﬁling were to blame for Quiros’ arrest and
alleged mistreatment. Photo/Alma Reyes Evans
the officers also touched his genitals while frisking him and, when
Quiros asked why, the officer responded, “You wish.”
Quiros was detained in the village courthouse for six hours, durQUIROS, continued on page 11
The Village of Mamaroneck has
stepped in it for the last time.
The Board of Trustees has signed
a contract with the USDA to have a
large number of the village’s geese
euthanized in order reduce the level
of droppings scattered throughout
Harbor Island and Columbus parks.
As Sound and Town reported
in November 2012, the Board of
Trustees purchased a Toro Rake-OVac, a machine designed to remove
droppings from large outdoor areas,
but found that more drastic measures needed to be taken to keep the
village’s parks clean. Animal rights
groups like the Animal Liberation
Front and the Animal Defenders of
Westchester have protested this decision.
The euthanization will take place
this summer, when geese enter their
molting stage-an annual process that
renders geese unable to ﬂy due to a
temporary loss of their wing feathers. USDA workers will also conduct a widespread search for goose
nests and coat any goose eggs they
ﬁnd with corn oil to prevent them
from hatching. After the geese are
euthanized, the USDA plans to donate the meat to local food banks.
Preventing excess waste from accumulating in the village’s parks has
been a concern for nearly three decades, according to Mayor Norman
Rosenblum, and the decision to euthanize geese is only one part of a
larger program to combat the issue.
“If you go down there, you can see
Columbus and Harbor Island Park
literally covered in goose waste,”
Rosenblum said. “I believe it to be a
health hazard, and it is not conducive
to the best interests of residents not
to remove the waste.” The mayor,
a Republican, also told The Sound
and Town Report that, while this is
an emotional issue that has met with
some opposition, the decision has
also garnered signiﬁcant support by
many residents in the village.
Kiley Blackman of the Animal
Defenders of Westchester said that
the situation disgusts her. “I will go
to court if I have to,” she said.
According to Blackman, killing
geese sends the wrong message to
people about animals, and the methods used to do so are cruel. “The
public is told that the slaughtering
is humane, but it isn’t. They crate
[the geese] all up with their babies
and use gas to choke them to death,”
she said.
However, according to USDA
Spokesperson Tanya Espinosa,
“Geese are placed alive in commercial turkey crates, and are taken to
a poultry processor, where they are
humanely euthanized and processed
for human consumption following
the guidelines set by New York State
Agriculture and Markets, New York
State Department of Environmental
Conservation Bureau of Wildlife
and New York State Health
Department.”
An additional criticism the board
faces is the added cost of euthanizing geese via the USDA, in addition
to the $30,000 that was spent on the
Rake-O-Vac.
Assistant Village Manager Daniel
Sarnoff, pointed out that the village
has tried other methods to keep
goose droppings out of the parks,
and that the euthanization has become the only option. “We’ve tried
a lot of things,” said Sarnoff, “and
nothing has worked.”
GEESE, continued on page 8
Concerns emerge over development plans
By CHRIS GRAMUGLIA
STAFF REPORTER
chrisg@hometwn.com
A study on commuter-targeted development around Mamaroneck’s train station was presented to the Village of Mamaroneck Board of Trustees on Feb. 25th at Village Hall. But,
several residents expressed concern that so-called transit oriented development may encourage
overdevelopment and increased trafﬁc in the area. BFJ Planning Consultants was contracted in
2011 to conduct the development study, which aims to futher diversify the Washingtonville area
of the village, help its businesses grow, and improve living conditions for residents in the area.
The development would cover areas within a half-mile of the Metro North Station.
A $38,500 grant was issued to the village by the Tri-State Transportation Campaign in 2012,
and since then, BFJ Planning has worked closely with the village and a civic group called the
Washingtonville Housing Alliance to amend zoning laws as well as devise reasonable changes to
areas located in close proximity to the Metro-North Station. The grant funded a study that sought to
build support from the community for transit-oriented development and support mixed use developments, including retail, ofﬁce and mixed-income housing with eco-friendly building designs.
BFJ Planning deﬁnes transit-oriented development as, “a type of community development
that includes a mixture of housing, ofﬁce, retail and/or other commerical development and
amenities integrated into a walkable neighborhood and located within a half-mile of public
transportation.” One of the main goals of the development is to beneﬁt those living in neighboring areas as well by allowing for reduced trafﬁc, lowering transportation costs, lessening the
demand for parking spaces and reducing total greenhouse gas emissions. Also, the proposed
development would integrate the areas existing retail infrastructure to the rest of the village.
There were some issues that some felt needed to be considered before making the development a reality, though, and many of these potential road blocks were brought to the attention
of the Board of Trustees. A major concern was the possibility of fast food restaurants taking
advantage of the zoning changes associated with the development. “I know that some people
have petitioned the board in the past in changing our fast food restaurant law,” said resident
John Hofstetter, who is a former village trustee. “What I don’t want is a loophole to be created
where we have fast food restaurants running up and down Mamaroneck Avenue.” Hofstetter
pointed out that fast food restaurants typically add a lot of trafﬁc to neighborhoods, which is
something that the village is attempting to cut down on through its development plans.
Another issue that caused some disagreement was the amount of parking spaces that would
be added to the new development. Hofstetter argued that more parking should be made available in the Washington Square area because residents are currently dissatisﬁed, but Frank Fish
of BFJ Planning pointed out that there is a large apartment building with no parking that is
the real cause of the problem. “The parking ratios, with the garage that’s been built, we think,
works quite well,” Fish said.
Hofstetter agreed that the garage had done some good to remedy the parking problem, but he said
TOD, continued on page 8
The Village of Mamaroneck is considering a new development in its Washingtonville
neighborhood and believes the new plans will improve the quality of life for residents living
within a quarter-mile radius of the Metro-North station. However, there are still some questions in
the proposed development, including how much parking should be added as well as how village
trafﬁc will be affected. File photo
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Town Council rejects Homestead Tax option
By CHRIS GRAMUGLIA
STAFF REPORTER
chrisg@hometwn.com
After vocal opposition from residents, the
Town of Mamaroneck
voted against the adoption of the Homestead
Tax option at a public
hearing on Feb. 27.
The hearing was attended mainly by residents living in condos
and apartments, a demographic that would
have been directly affected by the passing
of the Homestead Tax.
The Homestead Tax
is an option offered
by New York State
for local governments
to collect a higher tax
rate from individuals
who live in condos
rather than residential After receiving widespread opposition to the state’s Homestead
homes. In the Town Tax option, the Town Council decided not to adopt the measure. The
of Mamaroneck, the tax could have potentially raised property taxes for those living in
law would have only condominiums by as much as 150 percent. File photo
raised taxes for those residing in condominiums that were originally built solely as condominiums. Any resident living in a condominium that was converted from another facility or
a co-op would not have been affected by the tax.
The Homestead Tax option is only offered to municipalities that have recently undergone a revaluation of their properties, which the Town of Mamaroneck is in the process of
doing for the first time since 1968. The purpose of the option is to fairly distribute taxes
throughout a municipality and to ensure that the taxes paid by residential homeowners are
not disproportionate after a revaluation. The Town of Mamaroneck recently revalued its
homes at 100 percent of their market value through a study conducted by GAR Associates,
making the Homestead Tax an option.
According to a presentation by GAR Associates, there would have been an 8 percent
tax increase for single-family homes based on a median increase in reassessed value from
$845,000 to $913,000. Condominiums previously assessed at a median value of $193,000
increased in value to $299,000. However, if the Homestead Tax had been enacted, condos
valued at the median amount of $193,000 would have been revalued at $505,000, indicating a 150 percent increase.
Many residents voiced their concerns with these proposed increases, alleging that such
changes would make living in the town too expensive for them. “Effectively, if you pass the
Homestead Act on most of the condos in Pine Ridge, you’re going to be increasing them
by 60 to 110 percent,” Resident David Silverstone said. “At that point, I’m very nervous
as to whether or not I can continue to even visit our grandson...You’re cutting into a huge
amount of our annual income.” Silverstone is a senior citizen, and told the council that
he has less and less income as he ages, and a tax increase would make living in the town
increasingly more difficult for him.
Roger Stavis, another resident of Pine Ridge, mentioned residents who sold their homes
but remained in the community and the effect the tax would have on them. “They have
great debates in Washington D.C. over raising marginal tax rates 4 percent,” said Stavis.
“You’re talking about raising 100 percent, on people that moved from their homes and have
fixed incomes...That’s not fair.”
After determining that residents of the town were strongly against the Homestead Tax,
the board closed the hearing. Councilman Ernest Odierna, a Democrat, said the issues had
swayed his vote. “I had been in favor of the Homestead option until I started to read all
the communication we got, and heard from so many individuals,” Odierna said. “It made
me reflect and see how what we were going to gain wasn’t worth what we were going to
lose.”
Despite the widespread opposition to the tax option, Town Supervisor Nancy Seligson, a
Democrat, believes it could have turned into a complicated process. “I will say that it has
been a tough decision, because without the numbers it was a question of fairness. There are
definitely two sides to it. If it was a huge change that would have put an increased burden
on the single-family residential homeowners, that would have been a more difficult situation to look at.”
March 8, 2013 • THE SOUND AND TOWN REPORT • 5
Fundraiser supports volunteer ﬁreﬁghters
By CHRIS GRAMUGLIA
STAFF REPORTER
chrisg@hometwn.com
Molly Spillane’s Bar
and Restaurant hosted
a fundraiser on Feb.
28 to raise money for
Mamaroneck’s volunteer ﬁreﬁghters.
Volunteer ﬁreﬁghters-along with village Mayor Norman
Rosenblum-took turns
guest
bartending,
spoke with residents
wishing to offer their
support, served drinks
and encouraged attendees to make donations to the ﬁre department.
“The whole idea
is to make people
aware of the value
of the volunteer ﬁre Molly Spillane’s hosted a fundraiser to beneﬁt the village’s
ﬁreﬁghters on Feb. 28. Village ﬁreﬁghters took turns guest
department and quite volunteer
bartendering at the event. Photo/Chris Gramuglia
honestly raise funds,”
Rosenblum said. “The reason this is most im- but we recognize their families.”
portant is because the volunteer ﬁre department
Mike Hynes, the owner of Molly Spillane’s,
is the largest volunteer group in the Village of told The Sound and Town Report that a big
Mamaroneck; not only do we recognize them, part of his philosophy as a business owner in
the village is giving back to the community.
“A big premise in this bar, is that neighbors
should watch over neighbors,” Hynes said.
“These guys are our neighbors, and we thought
it would be a good way to give back.”
The Leary Fireﬁghter’s Foundation also
played a large role in helping the fundraiser
come together, and was represented by James
McCaffrey at the event. The Leary Foundation
was established in 2000 by actor and comedian Denis Leary, who lost both a cousin and
a childhood friend—both volunteer ﬁreﬁghters—to a ﬁre in Worcester, Mass. The charity
has raised money for ﬁreﬁghters in Boston,
Worcester, New Orleans and New York. “Mike
Hynes called about getting in touch with
the Leary Fireﬁghter Foundation—which I
thought was a great idea—to support the local
ﬁreﬁghters, and then Guinness [beer company]
jumped in. And I said to him, ‘well if it’s you
and Guinness and the Leary Foundation, I’m
in too,’” said McCaffrey, who has also worked
with the Leary Foundation in the past.
Fire Chief Chris Szymanowski was also
making the rounds at the event, and expressed
his gratitude for the overwhelming support
shown by the village and by the sponsors of
the event. “It’s nice to see a charity as big as
this, caring about the little guy, so to speak.
It’s a great cause, and an even better turnout,”
Szymanowski said.
The fundraiser will continue throughout
the entire month of March, allowing for residents to make donations while frequenting
Molly Spillane’s, and representatives from
Guinness will return to the bar on March 17,
St. Patricks Day, to continue their support of
Mamaroneck’s Fireﬁghters.
Correcting the Record
In the March 1 edition, in the article “New home brings ﬂood concerns,” we reported
that village resident Carina McCabe was uncertain of the Zoning Board of Appeals’ jusdiction regarding ﬂooding issues on North Barry Avenue and intended to question it at an
upcoming meeting. It was, in fact, the Zoning Board itself that will evaluate its jurisdiction
over the matter at the meeting.
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Purchase, N.Y. Spring 1995. I go down into the woodpaneled basement of my grandparents’ house, where they
still have an old table-sized stereo system with a record
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player. This kid, Jon, who is in my English class at Iona
AT LARGE
Prep, lent me a record by some punk band he swears by
Mark Lungariello
called The Queers. I put the record on and cringe. The ﬁrst
song, an instrumental number called “Steak Bomb,” is so
fast that I check the RPMs on the record player, thinking I have it set to 45 instead of 33.3. The
settings are ﬁne. When the vocals start, it still sounds wrong to me.
I give up on it and lift the needle after about 10 minutes.
Harrison, N.Y. Summer 1995. Jon and I manage to get back to Westchester on the MetroNorth with 47 cents between the two of us after a two-day journey to a place called The Tune
Inn in New Haven to see The Queers and some other bands. I think the Queers performed
poorly.
We decide when we get back to his house we’ll make a punk song about our adventure called
“47 Cents.” We never do though.
White Plains, N.Y. August 1996. Jon, my younger brother Matt and I buy the new Queers
record “Don’t Back Down” at the Vinyl Solution in Port Chester and drive home to my parents’
house to listen to it. It came out on vinyl a few days before it will be released on tape and CD,
so we get the vinyl, but then have to wait the whole drive home where there’s a record player
to listen to it.
We head upstairs into my room to use the player there. It’s a big deal that we’re even upstairs,
and my mother would kill me if she knew we didn’t take our shoes off while walking on the
carpet. I declare that I have never been this excited about a new album in my life. We mostly
love it, and we memorize the lyrics to as many songs as we can before their gig at Coney Island
High in New York City a few days later. We want to be able to sing along to their new songs
the same way we would their older tunes. After the show, one of our friends, Ian, is sweating so
much from dancing and running in circles in what they used to call “mosh pits” that it looks as
if he’s had ﬁve buckets of water dumped on him.
The Lowdown, Mount Vernon, N.Y. October 1999. The new band I formed, Team 13,
plays its ﬁrst gig at this small dive, which is essentially in a basement off the Cross County
Parkway. Legend had it that a few cars had crashed into the entrance and gone down the steps.
I play guitar and sing and there are three other guys in the group, including the bassist, who
is my friend from high school English we now call Jon Ruckus because all punk rockers have
nicknames like that. Jon comes out on stage wearing an Easter Bunny head and handing out
baskets of hard-boiled eggs. He uses butane to light his pants and bass on ﬁre when he plays.
None of the rest of us knew he planned to do this.
A hard-boiled egg ﬁght ensues immediately once we start playing, which is past 1 a.m.
People are being kicked out for throwing eggs at us and each other before we even hit the ﬁrst
chorus of our ﬁrst song. Four songs later, the sound guy cuts the power to the stage and shuts us
down. The owners of the place complain about the hard-boiled eggs all over the bar. “Anyone
have any salt?” I yell into the crowd.
The Lowdown, Mount Vernon, N.Y. Feb. 2, 2001. One of the songs we play has to be
stopped and started over to get it right. Someone pukes on stage. Mid-song, Jon smashes his
base, then covers its remains in rubber cement. The three other members of the band continue
to try to ﬁnish the song we’re playing. Then Jon lights the bass and his hand on ﬁre. The ﬂames
reach higher than my head and a half dozen people run on stage to try to stomp out the ﬁre, but
the ﬂaming cement sticks to their sneakers and they run off in a panic. People are moving away
from the stage, ready to run for the exit. I think calmly, “Not good: we are going to burn this
dump down.” But soon the ﬂames die down, though Jon has sustained third degree burns which
will require surgery. Still, we play two more songs and Jon joins us on stage to sing harmonies
on one of the numbers.
My brother Mike, who isn’t into punk rock, is seeing me play that night for the first time.
I apologize to him, slightly embarrassed. He doesn’t understand what I’m apologizing
about, because he thinks the almost-burning-the-entire-place-down thing was part of the
show.
New York City, 2013. I stand in the back of a club called Santo’s Party House, which is so
oversaturated with people that it’s not a crowd so much as it is a bunch of people standing in a
really long line that never moves and leads nowhere. Two punk bands, The Queers and Teenage
Bottlerocket, perform and I’m glad the show starts at 7 p.m. so I can be in bed at a decent
time. It’s Saturday. I’m also glad I’m not the oldest person at the show though I still feel self
conscious pumping my ﬁst on the sing along parts.
On the Metro-North heading back to Westchester, both my girlfriend and I doze off but luckily wake up in time for the White Plains stop. Two days later, she still complains of her ears
buzzing from how loud the bands were.
March 8, 2013 • THE SOUND AND TOWN REPORT • 7
Astorino leads school safety symposium at SUNY Purchase
By DANIEL OFFNER
STAFF REPORTER
dan@hometwn.com
More than 300 school and police ofﬁcials
gathered inside the Performing Arts Center at
SUNY Purchase on Feb. 26 for the launch of
Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino’s
“Safer Communities” initiative.
“Senseless acts of violence can never be completely eliminated...but that doesn’t mean we
shouldn’t try,” Astorino said. “There are public
safety concerns, mental health issues and all
sorts of societal inﬂuences at work...the good
news is we don’t have to reinvent the wheel.”
Astorino, a Republican, formulated the initiative in the wake of the school shooting last
December at Sandy Hook Elementary school in
Newtown, Conn. The goal, he said, is to keep
Westchester schools safe from acts of violence.
“Like a disease, [violence] can be treated, it can
be avoided, and it can be cured,” Astorino said.
For the ﬁrst of several sessions, Commis–
sioner of the Department of Public Safety
George Longworth coordinated a school
safety symposium to provide educators with
Members of the Westchester County Department
of Public Safety provide a real-time demonstration
of standard evacuation protocol in the event of
an “active shooter.” Four county police ofﬁcers,
pictured here, are suited up in full protective gear
and use replica ﬁrearms in order to demonstrate
how they would approach a suspect in a hostile
environment. Photo/Daniel Offner
practical guidance on making schools safer as
well as enhancing the coordination between
law enforcement and school districts.
The symposium included a keynote address
from former New York City Police Commissioner
William Bratton, three presentations from security experts on school-based violence, a demonstration of county police tactics and a panel
discussion focusing on strategies and real-time
decision-making in actual situations.
“Community policing in New York clearly
emphasizes a partnership that is critical to school
safety,” Bratton said. “We cannot continue to
operate in silos...there is too much at stake.”
Bratton highlighted several key components
of the plan to make local school communities
safer, including working towards building a
better partnership between school ofﬁcials,
local police and parents, understanding and
helping solve issues affecting today’s youth
and prevention of criminal behavior,which
involves understanding how to spot warning
signs and notifying the proper authorities of
any potential indicators.
For his demonstration, Westchester County
Department of Public Safety Chief Inspector
John Hodges brought out explosive-detecting
dogs with the county’s K-9 unit, a remote operated bomb-disarming robot and demonstrated
evacuation procedure in instances where there is
an emergency, such as an “active shooter.”
ASTORINO, continued on page 13
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GEESE, continued from page 1
Powell sentenced to life
Parolee Reginald Powell, 56, has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2010 murder
of Jennifer Katz, a Mamaroneck resident.
Westchester County District Attorney, Janet
DiFiore made the announcement on Feb. 28
Powell murdered Katz on Dec. 30 2010
by stabbing her once in the throat, and was
stopped by police at approximately 9:20
p.m. for making an illegal left turn in Central
Harlem. Powell stepped out of the car and
ran from police for a short time before he
was caught and arrested. He had been driving
Katz’s 2006 Toyota Highlander at the time
and had two bags of heroin on him as well as
four rings that also belonged to Katz. While
in custody of the NYPD, he mentioned Katz’s
body in the Village of Mamaroneck, claiming
he had found it while he was at the house to
shovel snow. The village police department
was contacted by the NYPD and found Katz’s body in her home shortly thereafter.
Detectives McNally and Carroll conducted the village investigation.
Katz was a 49-year-old mother of two. Powell claimed he had been working as a
handyman in her home at the time of the murder. Powell previously served 24 years for
murdering a cabdriver while addicted to crack cocaine in 1982.
-Reporting by CHRIS GRAMUGLIA
At a recent work session, Trustee Leon
Potok proposed several alternatives to euthanizing geese after consulting with Steven
Garber, president of Worldwide Ecology.
Potok’s proposal aimed to solve the problem
while also preserving the village’s public
image. “If we can solve the problem with
more humane treatment, than why wouldn’t
we?” Potok said. “We will see results immediately, as opposed to waiting until July
for the USDA, and this proposal will stop
the erosion of our village’s reputation.”
The proposal involves training the geese to
TOD, continued from page 3
builders should strive to provide more parking or
shared parking if the development is truly going
to beneﬁt the community as a whole.
According to Vernonica Vanterpool, executive director of the Tri-State Transportation
Campaign, the cost of adding parking spaces
would be problematic for the larger goals of
the development. “With regards to parking
spaces, I was actually very encouraged to see a
reduction, which is both a beneﬁt to the village
residents and also developers,” Vanterpool said.
“Each parking space costs a developer between
20 to 30,000 dollars, and that impacts the level
of affordability of the housing development.”
leave the village, and relies on hiring high
school and college students to chase them
out of its parks. Mayor Rosenblum disagreed
with Potok’s decision to devise the proposal,
claiming that he should have discussed it
with the board ﬁrst. Potok told The Sound
and Town Report that he felt he was simply
trying to take an initiative to solve the problem. “For [the mayor]to see that as a negative
is preposterous,” Potok said.
Neighboring villages like Scarsdale have
overturned similar efforts to slaughter geese,
and the City of Yonkers has announced that
it is unlikely it will continue the practice of
slaughtering this year.
According to Vanterpool, cutting back on parking spaces is a way for developers to save and
subsequently reallocate money to improve
communities in other ways.
Mayor Norman Rosenblum, a Republican,
pointed out that the main purpose of the proposed development is to improve the community, not to add parking to the village. “This
is not to create parking lots, but it is to create
a new and better environment for that section
of the Village of Mamaroneck, and in essence
extend the downtown Village of Mamaroneck
beyond the railroad bridge.”
The Board of Trustees plans to review the
zoning study in the upcoming weeks, before
bringing the proposal to a public hearing.
March 8, 2013 • THE SOUND AND TOWN REPORT • 9
Library ‘friends’ hope fundraiser spells success
By ALEXANDRA BOGDANOVIC
STAFF REPORTER
alexandra@hometwn.com
It is still a month away, but members of the
Friends of the Larchmont Public Library are
already “abuzz” about their latest fundraising
effort.
According to publicist Syl Morrone, this is
the ﬁrst time the organization is hosting a spelling bee in order to raise money for the library.
“We think it would be a fun event that
reaches across a lot of different areas of the
community,” said Morrone. “All of the funds
[from the team entries] will be used to better the book collection and make the library a
better resource than what it is.”
Ellie Fredston, who is co-chairing the event
along with Jackie Pare, said the organization’s
board came up with the idea during brainstorming sessions and ﬁgured it would be “an
appropriate thing” to do.
In order to generate interest, the Friends of
the Larchmont Public Library have circulated
“fun promotional teasers” throughout the
community, Fredston said.
The spelling bee is open to teens and
adults, and the entry fee is $50 per team, but
high school teams can participate for free.
Organizers hope to attract 20 three-person
teams to vie for different prizes.
“I think we’ve got about 10 teams or so
signed up, so
far,” Fredston
said.
“We’re
just about halfway there.”
Some former
library trustees
have already
signed up, and
a team comprised of local
school board
members may
also
participate, Fredston
added.
Entries are
still being accepted for the
bee, which will
be held in the
social hall at
the Larchmont
Temple at 3:30
p.m. on April 7.
Teams can register by visiting
the Friends of
the Larchmont A spelling bee to raise money for the Larchmont library will
Public
Lib– be held April 7 at the Larchmont Temple.
rary’s website Contributed photo
at friendsofthelarchmontlibrary.org/spellingbee.
“We’re encouraging people to pick a
name for their
team
[when
they sign up],”
said Fredston.
“We
really
want this to be
a fun event.”
According
to the website
fundraisingideascenter.
com, spelling
bees are not
only fun, they
are also proﬁtable and relatively easy to
organize.
“People love
spelling bees,
and it is even
better when it
is beneﬁting a
group with a
good cause,” a portion of the center’s website
reads. “With the same old fundraisers over
and over, the spelling bee is a good way to
break up the monotony.”
The contest rules and scoring vary. Typically,
a caller will give the word and teams will have
a set amount of time to write it down. All of
the answers are then shown at the same time.
In some cases, a team is disqualiﬁed after it
misses two words in a given round. The winning team advances to the next round and the
last team left standing wins.
In other cases, such as one outlined on the
website betterfundraisingideas.com, each
round consists of approximately 10 words and
points are awarded for each correctly spelled
word. The team with the most points wins.
“Key to a great spelling bee fundraiser is having a good master of ceremonies,” according to
betterfundraisingideas.com. “He or she needs
to be able to run the event from the stage, keep
spectators engaged and deliver the words.”
Michael Zuckert will serve as the MC at the
Larchmont spelling bee. Larchmont Mayor
Anne McAndrews, Town of Mamaroneck
Supervisor Nancy Seligson and New York State
Senator George Latimer will be the judges.
The spelling bee is free and open to the public,
and refreshments will be served beginning at 3 p.m.
“We are hoping it becomes an annual
event,” Morrone said.
10 • THE SOUND AND TOWN REPORT • March 8, 2013
Investigator’s report: Fraud, theft by Rye Golf Club manager
By CHRISTIAN FALCONE
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
chris@hometwn.com
The results of a far-reaching probe into the
Rye Golf Club show calculated actions by the
club’s former manager, who the report accuses of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars
from the city over a six-years span.
The investigation, which spanned nearly ﬁve
months, was released on Feb. 27 and outlined
orchestrated efforts by former manager Scott
Yandrasevich to run numerous shell companies, which, in turn, appear to have bilked the
city out of money since 2007.
Without many checks and balances over
Yandrasevich’s management of the cityowned golf club, the former manager was
able to funnel money from the club to his shell
companies unhindered and with a minimal
paper trail. Some residents have questioned
how the city’s management oversight personnel failed to recognize Yandrasevich’s alleged
misdeeds.
The case has been referred to the county
district attorney’s ofﬁce. Lucian Chalfen, a
spokesman for the district attorney, said the
ofﬁce is in the process of reviewing the matter. It is likely that a criminal probe will soon
begin.
Mayor Douglas French, a Republican, said
the investigation showed that Yandrasevich
was able to manipulate the system for more
than six years with a scheme that spanned
many roles and individuals.
“It is the city’s Madoff moment where
wrongdoing went unnoticed, and where there
wasn’t one break in the chain, but several,”
French said.
The mayor said the city would pursue all
avenues for restitution, and work to restructure its enterprise fund models to restore credibility. The city may also look to collect on its
employee theft insurance policy.
The investigation has cost the city approximately $280,000.
There were 29 witnesses interviewed in connection with the investigation. Yandrasevich,
through an attorney, declined to be interviewed for the investigation.
Moving trucks carried off the last of Scott Yandrasevich’s belongings from his house last week. The
former golf club manager, who resigned in mid-January, agreed to vacate the city grounds by the
end of February. File photo
The controversy at the club first surfaced
last summer when it was uncovered that
roughly $2.2 million in salary costs had been
paid out to RM Staffing and Events, Inc.,
a company that had provided labor for the
golf club. Of that total cost, approximately
$400,000 was billed as employee overtime.
The relationship between Yandrasevich
and the staffing company raised further
questions when it was reported that his
wife, Anne, worked for the company and
Yandrasevich himself did consulting work
for RM Staffing. Rye Golf Club, under
Yandrasevich’s direction, agreed to a deal
with RM in 2007, prior to the company even
being incorporated.
The former club manager was also scrutinized for his role in negotiations that would
allow RM Stafﬁng to take over operations at
Oak Hills Golf Course in Norwalk, Conn.
Yandrasevich argued at the time that he
had only done consulting work for the RM
Stafﬁng and only received about $1,000 in
compensation.
However, investigators discovered that his
involvement with the company was much
deeper.
Yandrasevich was involved in most, if not
all, material aspects of the relationship between RM Stafﬁng and its employees, according to testimony given by Suzanne RuggieroMadeo, the owner of Studio Y and RM
Stafﬁng. The report states that Yandrasevich
told Ruggiero-Madeo which employees to
hire, what to pay them, what to charge the golf
club for them and when to raise RM’s rates.
It was determined that Yandrasevich controlled RM Stafﬁng, and that, over a six-year
period, he used RM and Studio Y “to steal
many hundreds of thousands of dollars from
the city,” according to the report.
In one email cited by investigators,
Ruggiero-Madeo refers to Yandrasevich as
her “boss.”
The investigators also discovered that RM
Stafﬁng did not perform any of the functions of
a traditional stafﬁng company; it did not recruit
employees nor screen candidates. It did not conduct background checks, nor did it supervise or
train employees. It was actually the golf club,
under Yandrasevich’s authority, that performed
those functions. The golf club even drafted ads
and paid the charges for running the ads.
These revelations suggested to investigators that RM was simply a shell company created by the Yandraseviches and others. From
April 2007 to September 2012, RM Stafﬁng
invoiced roughly $7 million and received payments from the city totaling that amount.
Investigators found that Mrs. Yandrasevich,
working for RM, received a salary totaling nearly $175,000 from November 2009
to September 2012. She also received other
payments from RM Stafﬁng, including several checks and wire transfers in excess of
$70,000.
During the years of ongoing allegedly
fraudulent activity, Mr. Yandrasevich bought
two boats as well as a house for his mother in
North Carolina. In April 2010, he used an RM
Stafﬁng check to pay off a personal debt.
Red ﬂags were ﬁrst raised during a 2010
audit of the golf club, although there was no
illegal activity suspected at the time. The report
states that early that year, former City Manager
Frank Culross expressed a concern to the city’s
outside auditors regarding a potential ownership relationship between Ms. Yandrasevich
and RM Stafﬁng. However, it does not appear
that the auditors or anyone else were able to
substantiate the concern at the time.
This week, moving trucks were seen outside
the home of the Yandraseviches. The former manager resigned from his post with the club on Jan.
18 and agreed to vacate his home by Feb. 28. He
and his family lived rent-free in a house on club
grounds as part of his employment agreement.
Mr. Yandrasevich was hired by the city
in March 2002. With his hiring, he was
given reign over the operation and management of the golf club. In retrospect, it seems
there was little oversight from the club’s
Golf Commission or city management of
Yandrasevich’s handling of the organization.
In May 2006, when a contract expired with
Restaurant Associates to operate the club’s
restaurant, snack bar and catering operation,
the club assumed operations internally in a
move overseen solely by Mr. Yandrasevich.
The day after RM was incorporated in 2007,
the company began billing the golf club for
stafﬁng services. The early invoices lacked
basic details about what stafﬁng services had
been provided, according to investigators.
“There were no names or dates or hours tied
to speciﬁc workers,” the report states.
In 2010, Mr. Yandrasevich formed Ansco
Inc., which submitted unspeciﬁed monthly
invoices to Studio Y. Ruggerio-Madeo was
unable to describe the nature of the work provided except for two invoices from May 2010,
which totaled nearly $17,000.
In two years, Ansco made more than
$211,000 off invoices to RM and Studio Y.
The report released this week did not uncover
evidence that any other former or current city
employees beneﬁted ﬁnancially, though those
in charge of the city’s operations are already
facing questions for allowing the mismanagement to occur for an extended period of time.
At the center of the scrutiny is City
Manager Scott Pickup, who suggested during
a September 2012 Rye Golf Club Commission
meeting that the relationship between RM
Stafﬁng and Mr. Yandrasevich had been vetted by the city attorney and found to be above
board. Pickup told investigators that his comments were made in an effort “to calm everyone down.” Pickup told investigators he knew
the city attorney had not reviewed the stafﬁng
contract when he made that remark.
March 8, 2013 • THE SOUND AND TOWN REPORT • 11
QUIROS, continued from page 1
ing which time he said he was never read his
Miranda rights, and was not told for what he
had been arrested.
Quiros’ arrest and subsequent court appearance has attracted considerable attention
from other activists, as well as members of
Mamaroneck’s Hispanic community, who
believe that this incident is part of a much
larger, countywide problem with police accountability.
Members of the community gathered outside the courthouse, holding up signs that
read, “Dark Skin ≠ A Crime.”
Social worker and activist Alma Reyes
Evans attended the demonstration and told
The Sound and Town Report that the arrest
of Quiros is an indicator of a fundamental
unfairness in the way people of varying
ethnicities are treated by law enforcement
officials.
“There is a movement developing calling
for accountability and justice in the interactions among police and community members who are people of color. We’re here
because we want to demonstrate that we
are paying attention, that we are not comfortable with these things happening in our
communities anywhere in Westchester...and
that each citizen deserves to live without
fear,” Evans said.
Quiros’ attorney is Mayo Bartlett, the
same man who represented the family of
Kenneth Chamberlain in a recent high profile
case in White Plains. Chamberlain accidentally triggered a medical alert pendant that
falsely signaled an emergency, causing police to respond. Two officers arrived, broke
the door down to Chamberlain’s apartment,
allegedly mocked him with racial slurs after
he refused to cooperate and eventually shot
him to death. Bartlett said he believes that
there is a clear pattern indicating a lack of
police accountability in Westchester County
that requires attention.
“We have established a network for police
accountability, which is a coalition of different organizations and individuals who think
that this is unnaceptable,” said Bartlett. “I
think that too often there are efforts to divide people and to make it seem like your
issue is not my issue. It doesn’t matter who
you are, or what your background is; this is
unnaceptable.”
In his recent court appearance, Quiros had
his case postponed. “It’s important to send
a message to the police department that we
want transparency,” Quiros said. “Police
have to be much more conscious of their
behavior. What if I resisted arrest at two
o’clock in the morning? I could have been
dead.” Quiros also said that, regardless of
the outcome of his charges, he hopes this
incident serves as an example to younger
people in the community, specifically high
school students.
Quiros is due back in court on March 14.
Authors meet and greet at the library
Meet Vicki Addesso, Susan Hodara, Joan Potter and Lori Toppel who will speak about their
new book “Still Here Thinking of You: A Second Chance With Our Mothers.” in the Community
Room of the Mamaroneck Public Library on Sunday, March 17 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The book
grapples with the true nature of mother-daughter relationships and reveals the individual circumstances that brought these four women together, and then presents each of their stories of
their mothers.
“Hopefully, women who read this book will
see it as a gateway to revisit treasured moments, pass by the anger and resentment, and
discover their mothers’ good intentions,” said
Toppel.
The authors are all Westchester residents
from very different backgrounds, as were their
mothers. They joined forces through a writing
group in 2006 and in the process of writing
about their relationships, they deepened their
understanding of one another and their perceptions of their mothers transformed.
The authors will also explore the following topics: The mother-child relationship, the
ins and outs of an enduring writing group,
how writing can alter one’s understanding,
and publishing with a small press. There will
be signed copies of the book available for
purchase.
The book will be available on March 1 at
BigTablePublishing.com, Amazon.com, or on
the authors’website at StillHereThinkingofYou.
com. Join them for a group reading. To sign
up, please call the reference desk of the
Mamaroneck Library at 698-1250*3. No Fee.
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March 8, 2013 • THE SOUND AND TOWN REPORT • 13
L etters
Beach and Yacht’s status?
To the Editor,
If Mamaroneck Beach and Yacht Club [“Beach and Yacht permit still pending,” Feb. 22
edition] has not satisﬁed the Village Of Marmaroneck Planning Board by clear and convincing
evidence that the club is a membership organization with the right for a number of non-membership events, then the club lacks legal standing and should not be allowed to waste the board’s
time. This initial and simple legal concept could perhaps be explained by the village attorney to
all those who have an interest in this matter.
Michael Rosenbaum,
Mamaroneck
Get along with the geese
To the Editor,
Mamaroneck, “The Friendly Village?” Maybe not so much, at least not for Canada geese.
As a Mamaroneck resident for over 30 years, I am saddened by the mayor’s recent decision to
kill the Canada geese here. We are a beautiful waterfront community, and enjoying the rich variety
of waterfowl and other water birds is one of the great joys of living here. I ﬁnd it all the more
disturbing that our elected ofﬁcials are making this decision after spending taxpayer money on a
Rake-O-Vac to clean up goose droppings. Our ofﬁcials need to give this machine a chance to work
before spending even more taxpayer money on an expensive USDA contract to kill geese.
Canada geese are here to stay. Unwittingly or not, we provide them with a perfect habitat.
They are attracted by our suburban lifestyle: manicured lawns, open ﬁelds, and golf courses.
Like a small number of other species, they have adapted to survive in spite of human overpopulation and pollution. Many other species have not been so adaptable, and have simply died out.
It is upsetting that we respond to this resiliency with a death sentence. Most communities who
have had these roundups report that the vacuum created by the absence of geese is short lived.
More geese return, eventually. Intelligent communities who are wise stewards of taxpayer funds
ﬁnd humane, long-term ways to live alongside geese.
Some have referred to the goose roundups as “euthanasia.” This is not correct. Euthanasia
denotes putting an animal out of its suffering. The only suffering these geese will endure is at
the hands of the USDA workers. They will be rounded up when they are ﬂightless and defenseless. They will either be sent to a slaughterhouse, or gassed in crowded containers as they ﬁght
to breathe for several agonizing minutes. This is not what my community stands for.
This slaughter is made all the more tragic by the sheer senselessness of it. There are practical
ways to address concerns that some residents may have about geese. I urge our elected ofﬁcials
to take a more intelligent, compassionate approach.
Claudia Leff,
Mamaroneck
ASTORINO, continued from page 7
In the months since Newtown, the term “active
shooter” has been used as a term among law enforcement ofﬁcials to identify an individual that is
discharging a ﬁrearm in an attempt to kill.
“Discussion of these issues tends to help
lessen the shock when it occurs,” Hodges said.
“It is important for law enforcement to remain
dynamic as the plans may change.”
The event concluded with a panel discussion featuring County Executive Astorino,
law enforcement ofﬁcials and education leaders such as Harrison Central School District
Superintendent Louis Wool.
Wool, who also serves as the President
of the Lower Hudson Council of School
Superintendents, an organization including over
82 school ofﬁcials in the area, explained while
the local police have been actively involved in
working with the schools to prevent these events
from occurring, it is not enough to simply beef
up security around the schoolyard.
“We often wonder what would’ve prevented [the Newtown shooting], but fortifying
schools is an unrealistic concept,” Wool said.
According to Wool, school safety is reli-
ant not only on police response to emergency
situations, but to identifying disaffected youth
in the community.
For Detective Martin Greenberg with
the Mount Pleasant Police Department, the
implementing of school resource ofﬁcers is
also important for student safety, not only to
protect children and teachers from incidents
caused by active shooters, but also to take a
proactive approach to stopping a situation
from developing in the ﬁrst place.
“In schools, on top of everything else, it
is important to show face,” Greenburg said.
“Be present and be available...collaboration
is important to learn more about the students too.”
The county executive announced in a release following the event that for the second portion of his “Safer Communities”
initiative he plans to meet with mental
and physical health professionals at the
Westchester County Center on April 9.
The program will also coincide with the
efforts of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention to emphasize violence as
a public health concern affecting all local
communities in the country.
14 • THE SOUND AND TOWN REPORT • March 8, 2013
SPORTS
A shot in the arm for sports fans
It’s not that I don’t love sports–it would be hard to work in my profession if I didn’t–but it just
seems like each day, fans are inundated with negative stories. From athletes using performance
enhancing drugs to millionaires squabbling with billionaires over who gets a bigger slice of
the revenue pie, it’s easy to become disenchanted with something that is supposed to be a pure
endeavor. But every now and then, something happens that can make even the most cynical
observer believe in the majesty of sport.
It just so happens that the most recent afﬁrmation of everything sports can be occurred right
in our backyard.
By now, I’m sure you have seen what transpired at the Westchester County Center on March
2. In the Class AA section ﬁnals, New Rochelle, facing certain defeat at the hands of perennial power
Mount Vernon, pulled off one of the most miraculous last-second wins ever. Down by two points
with 2.9 seconds left, the Huguenots turned the ball over, and just about everyone in attendance–except for New Rochelle’s Khalil Edney–thought the Knights had won yet another section crown.
But Edney stayed alert. He intercepted a lazy, ill-advised Mount Vernon lob and ﬁred the ball
towards the basket 60-feet away with one-tenth of a second left to play.
You know the rest. The ball went in, but was initially ruled no good by one ofﬁcial before the
referees huddled at half-court and eventually overturned the call, giving the Section I title to
New Rochelle. You’ve seen the reactions, from the intial hysteria, to Edney being mobbed by
fans and teammates alike, to New Rochelle head coach Rasuan Young overcome by emotions,
tears of joy streaming down his face.
Conversely, Mount Vernon’s Bob Cimmino, one of the ﬁnest coaches that Section I has ever
seen, stared forlornly
across the court, trying
to comprehend exactly
what transpired in the
game’s ﬁnal seconds.
Not surprisingly, the
story blew up on social media and found its way into
the national news. Those
2.9 seconds–and their
aftermath-were broadcast
on ESPN, alongside highlights of Lebron James.
New Ro’s conquering heroes found themselves on
“Good Morning, America”
and CNN.
There’s a reason that
this game went ‘viral’ and
it’s not just because of the
Two New Rochelle players react to the referees’ decision to let Khalil wild ﬁnish. It’s because
Edney’s last-second shot stand on March 2. The thrilling ﬁnish to the the entire thing–while a
Mount Vernon-New Rochelle Section I Championship game became
once-in-a-lifetime scea national story, in part because of the emotional celebration.
nario–was so relatable.
Photo/Bobby Begun
The fans storming the
court weren’t some college student body with little connection to the Huguenots besides the name
on the front of New Ro’s jersey, they were the players’ friends, classmates, family members and
teachers. Edney’s shot–while it will be with him for the rest of his life–won’t be used as a bargaining chip in a future contract negotiation. Sure, that Hail Mary heave meant that New Rochelle
could call itself section champs, but, at its purest, that shot gave Edney and his friends the chance
to play at least one more game together before their high school careers come to an end.
It was a miraculous shot, an indelible moment, and a true testament to what magic can come
from a simple game. It was the kind of reminder that Americans need, every now and again, to
remember why they fell in love with sports in the ﬁrst place.
SPORTS
March 8, 2013 • THE SOUND AND TOWN REPORT • 15
Sarachelli, Castiglia both win at Golden Gloves
By MIKE SMITH
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
sports@hometwn.com
On March 5, local boxers
shined at the Golden Gloves,
as both Chris Castiglia and
Paul Sarachelli proved victorious in their bouts at the
Harlem PAL, using their
guts-and their ﬁsts–to advance
to the next round.
Castiglia, 35, is a New
Rochelle police ofﬁcer ﬁghting in his ﬁrst Golden Gloves
this year. Fighting in the 201plus pound Novice Division,
Castiglia took on a powerful
opponent in Ken Nolan, but
the Champs Boxing Club
heavyweight was able to withstand a couple of big shots en
route to a unanimous decision.
Despite taking standing
eight counts in both the ﬁrst
and second rounds, Castiglia
was able to force the action
for most of the ﬁght and completely dominated the third
round, landing punches at
will.
New Rochelle police ofﬁcer Chris Castaglia
poses with his trainer, Ryan O’Leary,
following his March 5 win at the Golden
Gloves. Castaglia won all three rounds of
his bout on each judge’s scorecard.
Photos/Mike Smith
Paul Sarachelli awaits the judges’ decision in his corner on March 5. He would win
the wild ﬁght 4-1.
“He hit me with a couple of good shots,”
said Castiglia. “But that’s what I needed. Each
time I come out, I’m afraid I’m going to get
knocked out, so once I take a couple of shots I
know I’m going to be OK.”
Fighting out of Larchmont’s Main Street
Boxing Gym, another New Rochelleian, 17year-old Paul Sarachelli, wowed fans with
an impressive, action-packed win over Judah
Brother’s BC boxer Joseph Alvarez. Dubbed
“Thunder” by his fans and drawing the largest contingent of supporters on the night,
Sarachelli lived up to his nickname, throwing punches continuously from the start of
the ﬁght to the closing bell and picking up a
4-1 win for his second victory in the tournament. Although both Sarachelli and Alvarez
connected with plenty of good punches, most
people in attendance thought that Sarachelli
had clearly won the ﬁght even before the
judges’ scorecards came in.
“I thought I was ahead coming into the
last round, but I had to keep pushing,” said
Sarachelli. “I knew I needed to keep punching.”
Sarachelli remains one of the more intriguing young ﬁghters in the tournament, as well
as one of the more popular ones, which–according to his father, Paul, Sr.–is a testament
to both Paul’s ﬁghting style and his demeanor
outside the ring.
“Outside the ring, you’d never know Paul
was a ﬁghter, he’s a quiet kid who gets along
with everybody” said the elder Sarachelli.
“Watching him in the ring, knowing all the
hard work and sacriﬁce he has put in, I’m the
proudest father in the world.”
Main Street Boxing’s Paul “Thunder” Sarachelli stalks down Joseph Alvarez on March 5.
Sarachelli and Alvarez put on one of the most entertaining ﬁghts of the night.
16 • THE SOUND AND TOWN REPORT • March 8, 2013